Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-08-05

The Knight of Ellersie is coming East.
Ormonde and Hanover are tied on races
won and have not been beaten.
NOlante will not be sent to Monmouth
Park until the middle Of August.
A match for $1,000 a side has been made
between the PAGERS Argyle and Tommy
Lynn.
A race between Harry Wilkes and lay
ENe-~ee VIII soon be Oh The grand circuit
programmes.
Lucky b., Mollie McCarthy's Last, Vol
tigeur and Solid Silver represent the
santa Anita stable in the New York hand
leap.
The Bard is not likely to 90 to England
in september, as he is entered in many of
the big events at the fall meetings of the
Coney Island Jockey club.
Jay-Eye-See is being nursed up for spe-
cial races against Harry Wilkes later in
the season. No track seems inclined to
offer him special.
Lucky Baldwin blames his trainer for
allowing Nolante to go out of condition.
He doubts whether the horse will be fit to
run in the Champion stakes.
! The circuit meeting at Troy will be held
] August %, "a, % and 20. More than 100
| horses are expected. The purses amount
| to $4,000. The entries closed Monday.
Frank Siddall, the owner of Johnston,
made a cash offer at the Detroit meeting
of $4,000 for the trotter Harry Wilkes,
! but the sire Brothers would not accept
it.
A. A. Bonner, New York, has sold to J.
Il. Lamy, Amherst, Nova Scotia, the bay
mare Lyra, 2.2S9l by Antenor, dam by
Peacemaker and her foal by Nutbourne.
The managers of the Hoosick Falls
! Driving Park association offer purses as
follows for meeting to be held on Satur-
| day, August 800 class SO > 40 class,
500, for trotters and SO for runners
The entries close July 30.
The Vermont Horse Breeders associa-
ton have received second entrance fees
| from over 50 of the " colts OF all ages en-
tered for the annual exhibition, which is
to be held i'll Rutland, September I, S
and 9.
The Bard is in the Beaverwyck Stakes at
q mile and 500 yards. This will he decid-
ed at Saratoga ON August 20. Nolante is
also III the race. The added money, $1,000,
is furnished by eX-Mayor Nolan OF AL
I bany.
Harry Wilkes and Patron will trot Fri
day on the Cleveland track for purse of
$500. 1t should be great race. Patron
made third heat in 2lG, half III l:O6 very
handily at Detroit on last Tuesday, and
though Wilkes will be "A fayorite, he is by
} no means sure winner.
At the late Chicago running meeting
over SlO4 600 was distributed to the differ
ent owners. Winners OF $1,000 or Oven
were f. }. Baldwin, 81 22l ID. j. Nc
Carly, $4,000 j. w. Guest, Sl0,510 j.
: b. Haggin, Sl0,2Sl f. Cowlgan, @5327
Chinn Il Hankins, S4906 ID. A. Ilonig,
$349S A. q. McCampbell, $3OS1 j. VI.
man, S23l0.
Fifty of the &C nominations to the
seven stakes offered by the New England
association of Trotting Horse Breeders
l and which will be trotted at Mystic Park
, during the last week in September, have
made the second payment.
Coates Brothers of Goshen, n. Y.
bought the gray. gelding Argyle record
troll has paid w. H, Berrell of the same
! place $1,000 for the bay gelding Little
Mack, PAGER, record, 2:l39..
= Captain : s. Brown, owner of Trouba
dour, is going TO settle the question
a whether Hanover can give Stuyvesant |!
pounds and beating. The latter is tC
start against Hanover in the Newark
stakes on Tuesday, August 2, when the
Dwyer colt Will concede Stuyyesant l.
pounds.
Hanover has won the following stakes
I this year: Carlton, value 5000; Brook
i. dale Handicap, S3l35; Withers, 1890
. Belmont, $3.50; Brooklyn Derby, S?675
Swift, 5000 Tidal, S614O; Coney lslanC
, Derby, $500; Emporium, SG972,5O; Spend
thrift, $1,000 Lorillard, Sl3, 10; Stockton
SG0SO; Saruegat, Sl16O; Stevens stakes
a Sjl30; total, SCI, 522 80.
= f. II. Towle writes that he called on f
Il. BraytOn short time ago and founC
4 some wonderful stock. GoOdWn's Ham
1 bletonian is strong, well made horse
8 mahogany bay and although 81 years old
active and vigorous with the appearance,
4 of not being more than half that age
a This horse is half brother to Blackstone
= who was recently sold at a large price Il
/ 90 west. He has been largely patronizet
c and is the sire of some excellent stock
9 While there is the usual tendency L
!. speed of the Hambletonlan families, We
+. there is coupled with this the indication
e of strength and endurance that woul'
give to his stock an added Valu
d for common business purposes. Ii
u the stable was a colt one year old il
= July by Goodwin's Hambletonian, out O
Stella, purchased by the Vermont Hors
U Stock company in Illinois and tracing
y back to imported Messenger. This colt i
: of good size and promises TO make valr
! able animal. In Il field we were show
% Mira Bell 10y son of Ethan Allen with
N record of 229, having a splendid foal b
,e her side by Goodwin. Lettie Knox tracn
IS back to old Gen Knox, is a valuable mar
&c and has quite n family of colts by Coco
Is Win one toal, one yearling and one tW
= years old. The last is already giving fiji
" indication of speed These and other colt
70 give Il good impress of GoOdwins llambl
to tonian as IA toal getter.
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